Guard for safety-razors.



PATENTED AUG. 11, 1908. A. A. WARNER. GUARD FOR SAFETY RAZORS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 14, 1908.

UNITED srarns PATENT osrron.

ALONZO A. WARNER, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO LAND'ERS, FRARY AND CLARK, 01* NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

GUARD FOR SAFETY-RAZORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 11, 1908.

Application filed April 14. 1908. Serial No. 427,048

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO A. WARNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Guards for Safety-Razors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to im rovernents in guards for safety razors, and tiie main object of my improvement is convenience and ethciency in operation.

In the accompanying drawing :Ifigure 1 is a side elevation of my guard, includim the guard holder. Fig. 2 is a like View 0? the reverse side of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view thereof. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the guard Without its holder. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the guard holder alone. Fig. (5 is a lon itudinal section of the middle portion of the holder and guard on the line a r of Figs. 1 and '3.

The present invention is in the nature of an improvement upon the safety razor pate entedto me Feb. 16, $,Patent No. 878,841, and resides in a stop device for locating the guard and holder in their proper relative position as they are slipped longitudinally into place, and also to a supplemental spring on one member of the guard holder.

The guard, including its holder, may be used upon a razor blade like that disclosed in my aforesaid patent, or upon any ordinary blade to which it may beiitted. 'As in my aforesaid patent, the guard proper A, consists of a comb like plate having ordinary guard teeth 7 and on one of its broad sides a series of longitudinal grooves 8. The guard .holder B, consists of two spring members i) and 10, and a hollow back 11, at their junction, the same being formed of a sin 'le piece ofsheet metal doubled upon itself a ong the line of the hollow back, the. member 9 having also an upturned lip or flange 12 for engaging an desired groove in the. series of longitudina grooves 8, as in the aforesaid patent.

I form a middle recess or depression 12) in the broad side of the bod ol the guard A, transversely to'the grooves 8 as best shown in Fig. 4-. In the middle portion of the member 9 I form an inset 14 which projects inwardly from the inner face of ,the said member and engages the depression 13 in the guard. in slipping the guard and holder longitudinally relatively to each other, the resiliency of the holder permits it to open suiiicieutly to have the inset slide along over the grooves and to snap into place as soon as the depression and inset IO IStOI with each other, thereby stopping t longitudinal movement of the guard and holder when they are in the proper position and holding them there until the are forced out of iace.

The member 10 of the guard B is s otted longitudinally by the slit or slot 15, Fig. 2, and the metal below the said slit 15 is bowed inwardly to form a supplemental and longitudinally extended spring 16, as best shown in Fig. 5, whereby the parts are always pressed together in a firm and substantial manner. The razor blade is slipped longitudiuallv with reference to the guard with its back in the up er art of the holder and the lower part of tiie blade in between the member 10 and the confronting I claim as urv invention:

1. The combination of a guard having a transverse recess in its body, and a resilient guard holder having two members for bolding the said guard between them,'one of the said membershaving on its inner face a projection for engaging the said recess in the body ol' the guard.

side of the guard.

2. The combination of a guard holder having two members, with a guard adapted to be held between the said two members, one of the said members of the said holder being provided with a longitudinally extended and inwardly bowed spring.

3. The combination of a guard having a transverse recess in its body and a resilient guard holder having two members for bolding the said guard lmtween them, one of the said members having on its inner face a projection for engaging the said recess and the other of the said members having a lougitudiually extended and inwardly bowed spring.

ALONZO A. WARNER.

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